Biology Quote by Peter Singer

“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result,…

— David C. Stove

“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game…

— Dan Simmons

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

— Jonas Salk

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would…

— Jane Wagner

“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.”

— Ron Sanders

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism…

— Bruce Lipton

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for…

— Lewis Thomas

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if…

— John Shelby Spong

“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

— Karen Armstrong

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not…

— Gina Maranto